Saturday, 7 September 2013

Cunliffe's cock-up

David Cunliffe has been speaking his branes on the history of Labour Party:

Since Michael Savage’s day, Labour has stood for a sense of
security, that we could have the basics covered by working together and
that would give us the chance to make the best of our lives.

That really is an apalling re-write of history. What happened to the 1980s, David? Huge swathes of New Zealand – usually
those with least – were not civen a chance to make the best of their
lives. They were given redundancy payouts and left to rot in communities
with no jobs, no future and no hope.

Any man who can mouth
that falsehood should be barred from even looking at the levers of
power, far less touching them.

That line has done more to make me doubt Cunliffe than anything the
other candidates, National, Kiwiblog, Whale or ever the endless
dittohead comments on the Standard has done. He’s either practising in
deceit, like every other politician, saying whatever needs to be said to
achieve his ends; or he’s actually deeply naive / stupid / deluded about
his party’s history.

The sad thing is, even if he’s both deceitful, and naive / stupid / deluded, he’s still probably the best candidate of the three.

But I suspect 2014 will see me making up about 1% of Mana’s party vote in Palmerston North, again.